About Lori
Lori Truesdell is a licensed clinical social worker with more than three decades of experience helping people manage anxiety and stress. She offers calm, steady guidance and brings a human touch to difficult conversations. Lori uses straightforward methods and gentle humor to help people stay grounded when life feels overwhelming.
She focuses on common challenges such as depression, grief, low self-esteem, and big life changes. Panic attacks, social anxiety, and feelings of isolation are also areas she addresses.
Background and approach
Lori aims to help people regain small pieces of control and rebuild a sense of purpose. In sessions she uses practical exercises drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, along with conversational coaching. That means identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and practicing different ways of responding to stress.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused, with clear steps to try between meetings. Lori emphasizes a strengths-based stance. She looks for what is already working and helps people use those resources to move forward.
She also believes that moments of lightness and humor can make steady progress easier to sustain. Based in Indiana, Lori has worked in clinical settings for many years and brings a broad perspective to everyday problems. She aims to create a respectful, steady space where people can talk through pain, practice new skills, and take small steps toward change.
CBT and practical tools for online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to spot unhelpful thinking, test new ideas, and practice different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. This approach works well for panic attacks, social anxiety, and daily stressors.Lori pairs this work with conversational coaching that looks for strengths and small wins. She helps people set achievable goals and decide which tools fit their life. Figuring out the right approach is a team effort and she adjusts methods based on each person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging helps keep momentum between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and keep continuity during transitions.
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- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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